Kandent says, in response , via Trackback, to my “Bush dodges the real question”:

There has been quite a bit of misleading going on, but it is not at all clear that the Bush administration knew that there weren’t any WMDs and told the public otherwise. There are more reasonable theories that some CIA informants lied, and the Bush administration (and many other governments) wrongly believed the bad reports.

My belief is that the Bush administration was out to “manufacture” anything they could. In this case, the method was “rush in” before anything defintitive could come out becuase it was taking too long. It was widely known that the Bush administartion had plans from the beginning (at their election) to move in on Iraq. Sept. 11 simply gave them the opening they needed.

My stance on these matters is that war is a last option. Problem is, the “last option” is too often “rushed” into deployment. Secondly, you don’t proceed with certain destruction, mayhem, and death on the basis of “THEORY”. The opinion that Saddam was “about to” use weapons of mass destruction is a slippery, dangerous slope. In fact, what kind of world would the US be facing if other countries applied the same logic and “pre-emptively” took action against us? They certainly have evidence that we are apt to “strike” at any moment….and so their “pre-emptive” strategy is put into motion on the basis of our own tendency to do the same.

I want to go look up the articles that came out back at the start of the Iraq thing that identify the Bush administartion’s “Pax Americana” type document where they outlined their goals of gaining control of Iraq and the region. In light of these types of “intentions”, and their stated rationales, I WOULD INDEED dub this adminstraton’s actions and deceptions SINISTER.